Kasamatsu Shirô (1898-1991)
On a rainy evening a lady under her umbrella is passing by the pagoda of Tennôji temple in Yanaka, Tokyo. The pagoda was destroyed in a fire, caused by a double suicide in 1957, and has not been rebuilt.
Title: Ame ni kureru tô – Tôkyô Yanaka (Pagoda in rain at nightfall – Yanaka, Toyko)
Signature: Shirô
Seal: Shirô
Publisher: Watanabe, Tokyo (Seal Hotei E)
Date: Shôwa 7 (1932)
Size: Vertical Ôban, 36,2 x 24 cm (image size)
Early copy, made before 1941. Excellent impression and colours. Paper slightly age toned. Verso in bottom margin a small stamp "Made in Japan". Excellent condition.
Grund W-8. Cf. also MFA Boston, No. 50.273; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation, No. 1978.1.69.
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